Being cured of a physical imperfection was only the first step on a new revolutionary path. Now the grateful Yamei must spend the rest of her life in service to Chairman Mao and the PLA, using her voice to sing their praises and placing her ears at the beck and call of the cause. In this case, liberation from physical oppression was not the result of the blind workings of an anonymous and unfeeling 'History,' but due to the magnanimity of Chairman Mao and the vanguard of the proletariat, the Communist Party. Their 'kindness' (enqing - 'loving kindness' of the kind that usually requires gratitude and repayment) was "higher than the very mountains, and deeper than the depths of the oceans."

Yamei now pledges to devote her youth and restored faculties to the PLA and Mao, thus completing the circle of reciprocity initiated by the PLA doctor that day in Tiananmen Square: the defective individual is identified. Concern is expressed; political study and reflection suggest a cure. Practice united with political theory results in a breakthrough. The afflicted person is treated and through judicious care and a great deal of faith physical wholeness is achieved. The revolution and its purpose are thus redeemed in the body, or rather through the body, of one poor-and-lower peasant made whole by the ministrations of a PLA doctor guided by the wisdom of Mao Thought.

The patient, now deemed 'normal,' is thereafter required to pledge his or her good health to those who brought about a cure. Thus the PLA, as an ideological deus ex machina, puts Mao Thought into practice so that those affected by that practice can in turn use their wellbeing to extol Mao Thought and the PLA, and henceforth perpetuate their good deeds.Thereby the individual sets up a mechanism of perpetual revolutionary motion, one in which no energy is lost or gained. It is perhaps coincidental that very little is actually achieved either.